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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: userspace trees
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:53:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120913175316.GR3274@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5052142B.3010601@sandeen.net>

Hi Eric,

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 9/13/12 2:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > It seems with the kernel.org account purge last year and me being way to
> > busy it seems like the -dev trees of the XFS userspace get very little
> > attention.  What do people think about retiring them and using the oss
> > trees exclusively again for now?  Right now the trees are getting a bit
> > out of sync which isn't a good thing.
>
> ISTR it was done in response to a .... fear of SGI being less responsive after
> a different type of account purge.  ;)  
> 
> If SGI wants to be responsible for merging all userspace patches as they
> come in on the list, I'm fine with going back to one tree on oss.

I discussed this with management.  SGI is willing to take on the responsibility
of merging all userspace patches.

I think retiring the -dev trees will resolve the out-of-sync issues we've been
having, and be less confusing for all involved.

Regards,
	Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-13  7:50 userspace trees Christoph Hellwig
2012-09-13 14:22 ` Carlos Maiolino
2012-09-13 17:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-09-13 17:53   ` Ben Myers [this message]
2012-09-13 17:54     ` Eric Sandeen
2012-09-13 20:10       ` Ben Myers
2012-09-13 20:13         ` Eric Sandeen
2012-09-25  9:29       ` Christoph Hellwig

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